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LAN - Prevention through Promotion of Immunizations and Screening Network

Description

Goals:

  • Promote engagement of the patient and family to improve patient health and self-management
  • Focus on primary care prevention and early diagnosis, through improvement in identified measures
  • Focus on effective use of clinical decision support, clinical quality improvement, and using the Electronic Health Records EHR to track and improve population health and the identified clinical targets

 
Measure(s):

Goal:
6% relative improvement from baseline
  • Flu immunizations of patients ages 50 and older during the flu season
  • Pneumococcal immunization of patients ages 65 and older
  • Appropriate low-dose aspirin therapy use in patients with ischemic vascular disease
  • Blood Pressure (BP) control in patients with hypertension
  • LDL-C control among adults with ischemic vascular disease
  • Tobacco cessation intervention among adult patients who smoke (screening and cessation counseling)
  • Colorectal cancer screening in patients ages 50-75
  • Breast cancer screening in women ages 40-69